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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nInterview with <\/strong>Terence Mauri<\/strong><\/a>, Founder of Hack Future Lab, MIT Entrepreneur Mentor and Visiting Professor at IE Business School<\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n While leaders all over the world are rethinking the future of work, talent and leadership what are the top success headlines for 2023?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The big story for leaders in 2023 is \u201cForever Beta\u201d, which I define as leading and embracing perpetual learning. I was recently invited to speak at the Nordic Business Forum<\/a> about the future of leadership and how many leaders are currently stuck between the certainties of the past and the unknowns of the future. I believe that a change in perspective is worth at least 80 IQ points, because current perceptions are grounded in past assumptions. Re-perception \u2014 the ability to see, hear or become aware of something new in existing information and notice the blind spots that we are blind to \u2014 is at the heart of leadership and is crucial for sustaining vitality for the long term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the clearest signs of a high learning orientation is rethinking your assumptions and updating your opinions. It\u2019s about directionality (clarity of mind) and materiality (activation). Operating at the edge of uncertainty, context becomes key. Leaders need to strengthen their context-setting, culture-setting, and belief-building to ensure future readiness. This means prioritising:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Leading and embracing perpetual learning<\/strong> inspires leaders to challenge the status quo and reject taken-for-granted norms. It starts with the curiosity to learn and the courage to unlearn. Learning helps us evolve; unlearning helps as the world evolves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What <\/strong>are the biggest leadership challenges for 2023?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If there\u2019s one challenge for leaders in 2023 it would be to remember that data isn\u2019t the new oil. Attention is the new oil. Attention to culture and talent. Attention to sharpening the growth and value agenda. Attention to adopting new agile ways of leading. And attention to redesigning work that prioritises belonging (care and connection), becoming (growth and opportunity), and believing (radiate purpose and trust).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Research at Hack Future Lab shows that attention\u2014and leadership attention in particular\u2014has been blown up into millions of fragmented pixels. The accelerants have been technology and the changing nature of skills, talent and sustainable performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The #1 takeaway is that leaders are tired. Zoom fatigue. Meeting fatigue. Collaboration fatigue. Solution fatigue. Brain fog. With over 41 trillion dollars of enterprise value at risk and 93% of leaders expecting significant industry disruption over the next three years, leaders should ask which leadership mindsets and behaviours are emerging, enduring and eroding? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Can you share your team\u2019s new research on the <\/strong>\u201ctragedy of the horizon\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I recently got to speak at a leadership conference on leading from the future,<\/p>\n\n\n\n alongside Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Bank of England.\u00a0 A key moment of truth was the “tragedy of the horizon” – a leadership blind spot that most leaders suffer from. It means a failure to lead from the future versus leading from the past. Leading from the future means pursuing curiosity over conformity, resilience over fear and agency over \u201cfake empowerment\u201d. When we lead in outdated ways, it’s a tax on human potential and future potential. Most organizations fall short when it comes to strategic alignment, too. No one knows your strategy. Not even your top leaders. Leaders should focus on three priorities and have a \u2018No\u2019 strategy to separate the signal from the noise and make things happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, what\u2019s your biggest call to action for 2023?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As leaders respond to sticky inflation, supply-chain shocks, Green Swan events, recessions and the war in Ukraine, there is anxiety and fear but is enough being done to spark bold leadership around the things that matter: value creation, human vitality and resilient growth for the long-term. I challenge leaders to BE the change<\/strong> in 2023 and explore two big questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n About the author:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Terence Mauri<\/a><\/em> <\/strong>is the founder of management think tank Hack Future Lab, Entrepreneur Mentor at MIT, and Adjunct Professor at IE Business School where he speaks on leadership, strategy and culture. A new publication\u00a0Building Resilient Organizations<\/a> co-written with the world\u2019s leading business thinkers in partnership with Thinkers50 and Brightline Initiative is out now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/p>\n Interview with <\/strong>Terence Mauri<\/strong><\/a>, Founder of Hack Future Lab, MIT Entrepreneur Mentor and Visiting Professor at IE Business School\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Which is worse: \u201cWe saw the trends on the horizon\u201d; or, \u201cwe saw the trends on the horizon and didn\u2019t act\u201d? Research at\u00a0Hack Future Lab\u00a0shows that to lead from the future, leaders should bring the future to the present to take action today. That’s how to solve the tragedy of the horizon.
A useful starting point is to ask human-centric questions that amplify sense-making and choice-making. What are the boldest questions you will ask in 2023?\u00a0
✅ Do we practise bold and focused leadership?
✅ Do we minimise or maximise freedom and responsibility?
✅ Do we commodify or humanise the work experience?
✅ Do we obsess over values, not just metrics?
✅ Do we enable wise choices, not just the fastest?
✅ Do we strengthen existing human brilliance?
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